Roi,

Thanks, for the explanation.

>You have to use the set statment to set an object to a var. example
>
>dim loText as TextBox

And for what we do more in VFP we'd have to do a LOT more typing.

>It's not as terrible as everyone imagines, and does save some typing.

And the new Intellisense pretty much negates that advantage. *s*

I'll do without default properties. *s*